350 ON LITTLE OR UNKNOWN HIMALAYAN 



September, and is lost again a few months later. On first 

 meeting with the bird I thought 1 had come across a new 

 local species, for it has fourteen rectrices, and according to 

 Professor Schlegel this number is possessed only by carbo and 

 two African species. If not carbo, therefore it must be an unde- 

 scribed species, for the African birds would not be likely to 

 occur in Southern Burmah. Subsequently, however, white 

 spotted birds turned up. 



The following are the dimensions of three fine males : — 

 Length, 32 to 32*7 ; expanse, 51 to 52 ; tail, 6'8 to 7*5 ; wing, 

 13-3 to 13-6 ; tarsus, 2-3 to 2'4 ; bill, from gape, 3*85 to 3'95 ; 

 outer toe and claw, 38 to 4*0. 



The under surface of the plumage, from the throat to the 

 vent, varies in individuals from glossy black to pure white, and 

 every possible combination of the colors occurs. 



Iris, bright green ; pouch and under the eye, bright gam- 

 boge yellow ; eyelids and in front of eye, dusky yellow ; the 

 culmen and on either side, dark brown ; the tip and margin of 

 the upper mandible, together with the whole lower one, light 

 pinkish horny ; legs, toes and claws deep glossy black. 



1006.— Graculus sinensis, Shaw. 



This Middle Cormorant is as common as carbo, and the two 

 consort together, and with melanognathos, most amicably. I 

 have found it only in the Pegu plains. It has 12 rectrices. 



<Dn little u \\wh\m\ itmalaiinit Mm foit| ftotcs on 

 i&e §irte. 



By Andrew Anderson, F. Z. S. 



Having recently returned from a two months' tour in 

 Northern Kumaon, I am anxious to present the readers of 

 tl Stray Feathers" with an account of the more interesting 

 portion of my oological discoveries in this grand country. A 

 full history of all my doings in the Alpine tracts of this provinco 

 must be deferred to a more convenient season ; meanwhile, as 



